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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Comprehensive Overview of the Cricut cartridge Once Upon a Princess

Geesh - it's been a while since I posted a comprehensive overview of a cricut cartridge. It has been really difficult to find a big chunk of time where I can completely focus on a cartridge and all of its features. Well today we will be looking at Once Upon a Princess which is quite a surprisingly loaded cartridge. It was one of the first cartridges I purchased because I have a daughter who actually is a princess (at least at our house.)

In this post we will look at:

a Sample view of the cartridge images and brief summary of content

a list of the features offered on the cartridge

a Phrase Reference Sheet in PDF for download

a link to the PDF of the handbook

a spreadsheet with a list of the images, words and phrases with their pages numbers including a link to download the PDF
version.

As you can see, There are a lot of different ways you can use the artwork on the cartridge. There are several projects like the crown, the wand and the castle; a few party elements like the gift bags and cards; loads of artwork including unicorns, butterflies, flowers and rainbows and a fun selection of paper dolls with all different types of costumes.

Each overlay key or handbook page includes:

the primary image

a layer

a phrase

a gem

a font

a tag

a base shadow/ phrase shadow

and each of these features (feature keys) have a shift option which provides additional artwork.

I really like the selection of phrases on this cartridge. Each phrase has a layer which adds dimension plus it has a shadow under the "base shadow/ phrase shadow" feature button. Below is a visual of all of the phrases available on this cartridge.

You can download a PDF copy of this Once Upon a Princess
Reference Sheet by clicking the link below. If you would like to share
this information
on your blog, instead of copy and pasting this info, please paste a
link to my site:

The font on this cartridge has 2 versions. The primary is a delicate cursive and the font with shift is encased in a crown which would be great for titles.

The tags are fabulous on this cartridge. Each Tag feature has 2 different styles - the primary and the +shift. The Gem feature seems limited in its applicability. I suspect it is primarily designed to use on cards.

To see a pdf of the entire handbook with all of the images and features, click HERE.

Last but not least, here is a list of all of the images and phrases on this cartridge with
their page numbers. If you find any errors in the spreadsheet, please
let me
know so I can correct it. If you would like to share this information
on your blog, instead of copy and pasting this info, please paste a
link to my site. The spreadsheet below is saved as a JPEG but you can
download a PDF version of Once Upon a Princess here: